Linux Jobs in Cardiff

Linux
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Linux skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linux over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 33 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 -12
Permanent jobs citing Linux 8 32 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.57% 4.39% 2.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.33% 40.51% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 27 11
10th Percentile £43,625 £36,550 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,101 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,996 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -5.46% +22.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,513
90th Percentile £65,237 £69,473 £67,775
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Cardiff

Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 79 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 8.57% 10.84% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 14 74 27
10th Percentile - £25,450 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,170 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,188 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,885 £70,000 £71,250
South Wales median annual salary £47,500 £40,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year +17.28% +2.53% -6.78%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Linux as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Cardiff

Linux
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux in Cardiff.

Salary trend for Linux in Cardiff

Linux
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux in Cardiff over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Linux in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Django
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) CentOS
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Google